Markup Language

Case Studies

The aim of these case studies is to draw attention to some
interesting aspects of modeling specific information in XML.
In each case many "non interesting" aspects have been left out for
brevity and clarity.
The accompanying pages on XSLT and XSL FO highlight how some
of the information identified is used.

Numismatic Reference Work

This application is a scholarly work on ancient South East Asian
coins.
For each coin type the information identified by markup includes:

"title"

description of obverse and reverse of the coin

information about known specimens of the coin; for each:

weight of the coin

owner of the coin or a reference to a published coin

filenames of illustrations

The information captured is displayed in a conventional manner, but
in addition the information is used to calculate the average weight and
standard deviation of the weight distribution.
In addition a histogram of the weights is created.
Further details are given in
XSLT aspects
and
XSL Formatting Objects aspects
for the techniques used.